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May 2020, Policeman Timothy Bremer killed his lover of 10 years Claire Parry , by accident in his car as she sent a message to his wife informing him of their affair. 
Did the jury get this one wrong?

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The second of the Halloween podcasts for 2020, these are both set in the county of Suffolk. The Rougham mirage and the Kersey time-slip. Both phenomena could be retrocognition or hallucination.

Carl Groves goes into much greater detail on the Rougham mirage, search for the Rougham mystery by Carl Groves online for further details.

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Nicola Stevenson was a 39 year old mother who was registered as being disabled. She had moved to Lewes in East Sussex in 2018 and was given allocated a council flat by the Lewes Council at Landport Estate in the town. Nicola was prescribed pain relief medication and also used alcohol and class A drugs, Nicola was described as a feisty and positive character who soon made friends in the Lewes area. 
Nicola took pity on Richard Canlin who she knew and described as her step brother; he was homeless and so she said he could lodge in the front room of her one bedroom flat. This proved to be a mistake as Canlin was psychopathic personality who was quick to enrage and take his anger out on those who were less physically strong as him.

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A rather unusual case here which comes from the journals of the Society of Psychical Research. Edgar Vandy drowned while on a day out with friends on a Sussex Estate in the summer of 1933. The inquest recorded accidental death but Edgar's brothers were unhappy with the verdict and employed mediums to try to ascertain the truth of what happened that day which seemed to suggest something of a 'cover-up'. 
This is the first of three episodes being uploaded leading up to Halloween 2020.

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Part 5 of the 'Performance' series. An examination of the Police investigation into a serial killer who targeted female sex workers in  1960s London. It is suggested that a well known celebrity of the time could have been responsible but was protected by freemasonry and corrupt police who were blackmailing him.
The investigation giving an idea of the time that the film was made showing the criminal side of corrupt London as counterbalance  to the last episode showing something of the glamour of Swinging London. 

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This is the fourth podcast in the series about the background to the film 'Performance'. It is about the Rolling Stones contribution and their situation during the making of the film. How Jagger and Jones became part of the 'Chelsea set'. Police and media collusion and corruption, MI5 and FBI trying to convict the Rolling Stones to prevent them influencing young people. Bent Policeman D.S.Pilcher targeting Pop stars to convict them for drug offences. The death of Brian Jones in 1969, accident or murder or a combination of these?
It is a bit of a ramble, although this is part 4 the episodes can be listened to in any order as it is not a chronological story. Episode 3, the John Bindon episode was back-dated by mistake and seems to have been lost to some. Next weeks podcast concerns the investigation into a serial killer that haunted the filming of Performance.

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London in the 1950s & 60s was changing, the media said it was becoming 'Swinging London'? In reality new elites were challenging the old establishment.
 David Litvinoff was involved with the Chelsea set and the worlds of music, art and crime. It was his contribution to the film Performance that connected the London Underworld to the London Underground, He knew the Krays and he knew the Rolling Stones and he knew a lot of other people. 
Litvinoff was one of the mysterious characters that London produced during a time of flux and change. He was a character who it may have been fun to be around, but you wouldn't want him too close.
 

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This is part 1 of a series of podcasts that are based on the British Movie Performance. A film which the film historian David Thompson said that the film was not as good as the stories about it. Well the film has a Rotten tomatoes score of 85% and has had a number of books and articles written about it. It is about London in the late 1960s when the swinging fashionable crowd mixed with the aristocracy who mixed with the criminal underworld. This episode is about Jimmy Evans, a flash 'Jack the lad' gangster, scared of nothing who was the advisor for a similar character  who played the lead role in  the film Performance (Chas Devlin), a film when the criminal underworld of London decided to take part and show themselves on film. This first episode  examines the life of Jimmy Evans who inspired the role of Chas Devlin.

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Performance was the film made in 1968 where it was said that the Underground met the Underworld. In this podcast we examine the life of an underworld enforcer who was also an actor, who virtually played himself in the film. John Bindon, a larger than life character who was a violent thug, an associate of the Krays and had the Queen's sister Princess Margaret as a lover.

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1935 True Crime,  Bournemouth, a female muscian unhappily married has an affair with aToy boy, her husband is a famous architect  and everything goes wrong. An unhappy story  with an unhappy ending; in fact a desperately unhappy ending which was not fair. A murder at Bournemouth /Boscombe Manor road.